Today's Weather Introduction

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Hi , this is meteorologist Steve Pelletier and I am the weatherman . Thanks for checking into the weathermanpodcom on your Wednesday . It is the 16th day of the month of April 2025 . It looks like a brisk northwesterly flow

New York City Forecast

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continues right across from the Great Lakes down into New England , causing snow across

Travel Weather Conditions

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northern portions of New York State , northern Vermont and New Hampshire and even portions of Maine , especially off to the north up by New Brunswick and St John Provinces , and we're looking at a weather situation showing that the atmosphere is really starting to turn now , turning over towards that more springtime type of pattern , as the sun is rising earlier and setting

Composition of Earth's Atmosphere

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later .

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Now our atmosphere is a very thin blanket of mixed gases . Six of them are present in large enough quantities to be important , but of course , the most important is nitrogen , and most people think it's all oxygen around here . Most of it's nitrogen and the most important one makes up 78 percent of the atmosphere . With oxygen , which what we need is 21 percent argon , about one percent carbon dioxide is only three hundredths of a percent . That's what we exhale and that is taken up by the trees , and the trees then reproduce oxygen , so they breathe in carbon dioxide , breathe out oxygen , and we breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide through that process

Trees, Oxygen, and Carbon Dioxide

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. So that's why when you go into one of those forests or to an area that's really growing on a wet day , you can really smell that oxygen . You can really smell the invigorating air and the atmosphere

National Weather Outlook

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that we have there . So , weather-wise , lots of oxygen is going to be produced with the rain showers across the central and northern plain states , from the Dakotas all the way down into western sections of Nebraska and Kansas and even northern portions of Colorado . Also still some snow across Montana , but it's mostly in the northwestern section of the mountains and it looks like on the west coast . Still dry conditions , but the threat of high pressure starting to build into the west coast looks very , very good . It'll move in quickly and then we'll get possibly some more storms hitting the Pacific Northwest sometime towards the end of this weekend or early next week .

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In the meantime , for New York City looks like our weather situation for today is going to be partly to mostly sunny , but windy and cool . High temperatures of only 50 to 55 . Normal high for New York City is about 65 , so a good 10 to 15 degrees below normal , depending on where you are . We are talking about the northeast corner , dc , all the way up to Philly , baltimore , philly and then up into the New York area , eventually up to Hartford and Boston and all those places . Still with that brisk northwest relief flow for today , making it cool . It will be partly cloudy for tonight . Looks like decent weather for Thursday and Friday . As a matter of fact it starts to warm up a bit back to near normal . That means temperatures in the mid-60s by later on this week .

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Now , if you're flying or traveling on this Wednesday , we do see generally dry conditions in New York and Boston and , as mentioned , northern portions of Vermont and up in northern New Hampshire . Those places will be getting some snow and rain , but elsewhere , down to Atlanta and Charlotte , all looking good . Florida is also no problems there . Texas most of Texas no weather problems at all expected for today . Chicago is dry . It's a little bit warming going into the St Paul area but they will probably be getting some of that rain out of the Dakotas over the next day or two . And , as mentioned , west Coast is looking dry . San Diego , los Angeles , san Francisco no problems there and looks good up in Portland and Seattle . I'm your manager , steve Pelletier , and I am the weatherman . Hope you have a great Wednesday . Talk to you first thing tomorrow . Take care .